This example clearly shows what we are up against. Yet, as the recent pact with Novell shows, we are winning, and this battle must be relentless. The pillars of open source are crumbling, even though their leaders spout nonsense telling you otherwise.

Actually, after reading Beer's assertions over on Rory's blog, one really does have to wonder if the ISO standardizing of CLI was meant to be lawsuit-bait. I also think those who maintain the Linux kernel should hire a patent lawyer or somebody to make
sure they are not violating patents in the code. It can't be that hard to do.

Then, once all the patent issues are cleared up and the code is fixed (assuming there are patent violations to begin with), counteract the nonstop FUD machine with better marketing.